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Stickley Furniture and PPC Broadband, Inc. have immediate openings for CNC Machinists and toolmakers. To fill those needs, the companies are teaming up with Onondaga Community College's Office of Economic and Workforce Development on a paid-training program. The training will begin in January and last until April. Training will be held on the OCC campus. Pay during training will be $14 per hour. Following training, pay may increase to $18 per hour.

Duyen Nguyen is cooking up a cornucopia of Thanksgiving foods decades in the making. On the night of Wednesday, November 27 her amazing delicacies will be part of the Thanksgiving Bake Sale at the Westcott Community Center. Her menu items are similar to what her mother made and sold in Vietnam for 20 years. Nguyen is hoping to improve upon them. "Everything she made, I'm adding more flavor to it. When I make something and it doesn't come out right, I ask her how I can make it better and she tells me. To make my mom proud is a really big deal to me.

• Major: General Studies
• High School: Rocky Point on Long Island, class of 2017

Leo Burke has a unique side hustle. He's an OCC student who works remotely as a Solar Engineer for Long Island Power Solutions, designing solar-powered energy systems for homes and businesses. Once clients agree to the deal, Burke's work goes to engineers who turn his plans into reality. "They trained me how to do the estimates and I got really good with them. I started working with Long Island Power Solutions in 2018 and have done more than 1,600 estimates."

On this month's edition of our podcast, "Higher Ed News You Can Use From Onondaga Community College," we introduce you to Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Eunice Williams. She began teaching at OCC in 1996 and has overseen diversity-related efforts for the last 11 years.